so delicious...

It's girls night out, there will be snacking and spoons.. what should I take?
Why Maple French Toast Bacon Cupcakes of course!
And they taste as good as they look, and smell even better! And I could sit down with a spoon and just eat the icing out of the bowl!

Stealthy cuteness

Times 2!

Well ninja number 2 is done... and just as sweet as the first, if not a little bigger? Why you ask? Well so do I, same pattern, same brand and type of yarn? It's a mystery?

All Business...

This time the Serendipity Stamps design team was challenged to make a card that fits into a business envelope, that makes my finished card 4" x 9".

Here is a close up of the sentiment and the coloring on two of the cupcakes. I had a good time with these cupcakes, making them bright and fun, and you know if you eat one it will turn your mouth colors!

Supplies:
Cupcakes Cling Set (1161QCL)
Copic Markers
Black Ink
Yellow glitter glue

Directions:
1. Cut a card base so the finished size is 4" x 9", stamp the sentiment in the upper right corner, and then randomly stamp candles around it.
2. Cut a piece of paper to 9" long and add a wavey top, adhere to bottom of card.
3. Stamp five big cupcakes and color them, and cut them out. Adhere to card along the wavey line.
4. Color in candles and add glitter glue to lines around flames!

I hope you enjoyed this months first project, it makes me want to go eat some cupcakes.... now please check out the other designers blogs:

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



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So about 6 months or so ago I decided I would learn to crochet... now mind you my grandmother had tried to teach me many years ago, and well I was a miserable failure. But in the day and age of youtube... I have succeded. I made a few blankets, some flowers,and a tiny wee baby hat at prayer shawl group at church.. Then one magical day at Barnes and Nobel I found the book Creepy Cute Crochet, by Christen Haden.... and knew that the little guys in the book would be next.. and since Jim bought me the book, I told him he'd get the first guy, a ninja!

Here he is being very ninja like hiding among my fall pumpkins and gourds.


And here he is blending in with my laptop.... very ninja like, right? I can't get over how stinking cute this guy is.. and that I made it?




And with so many more choices in the book look forward to more super cute amigurumi creatures in the future!

Simple Christmas Cards!

For October's second Serendipity Challenge we are keeping things simple!

I chose stamp from the new Christmas stamps and kept it to three colors. I had the urge to add glitter and had to keep myself in check, simple!

Supplies:
* Tree Flourish Large (1234G)
* Simple Merry Christmas Small (1035D)
* Red card base finished size 4" x 4"
* White Cardstock 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"
* Ink Green and Red
* Green Ric Rak

Directions:
~ Stamp the tree towards the top side of the white square in green. Stamp Merry Christmas at the bottom using red.
~ Attach white square to red front. Tie the ric rak around the top of the card, and you are finished!

Now check out the other awesome projects here:

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



And as always check out Serendipitystamps.com and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get those awesome deals!

Elk county and a surprise...

so it seems like every year Jac and I make the trek to Elk County with my parents to see the Elk now they are huge and beautiful animals but I always have an ulterior motive.... BEARS! Yes I think I may have been the last person in Pennsylvania to not see a black bear! This year I finally fixed that with not one, not two, but three bears together!

Here we have the biggest Elk of the trip.... just hanging out by the side of the road eating.. it was also the rut season so we got to hear lots of bugling which is super cool!


Jac at the Elk Center in the discovery room!

Although the turkey fan looks great at as a headdress, that's not where turkeys wear theirs....



And last but never least... the bears.. okay so I got super excited and didn't get any great pictures, but that little black blob to the left of the house, baby bear I swear it...

Meet

Rockelle



So my mother and her cohorts at work have a weird sense of humor. When someone has surgery or some such thing they make a party out of it. In this case someone is having their gallbladder out becuase of stones... so hence the stone theme! My mom asked for a cute pet rock with sticky up hair and a bow! And this is what I came up with. Of course at work today she will certainly pass this cutie off as her own!